Matthew Seaman <[email protected]> writes: > You can start snmpd with the '-r' flag which means it will at least run > without needing access to /dev/mem or anything else privileged, but at > the cost of reduced functionality. For instance the 'proc foo' test to > check on the presence of a foo process doesn't work. Quite why that > should need rootly privilege I do not know: it's effectively the same as > grepping the output of 'ps -acx'.
It probably uses libkvm instead of the newer libprocstat, which does not require access to /dev/mem. The only reason you'd ever want to use libkvm is if you want to be able to operate on kernel dumps. DES -- Dag-Erling Smørgrav - [email protected] _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-security To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
